Authors Daniel SilhavyOne of the key features of a production grade video player is the ability to recover from critical errors. Talking about web-based video players there are a lot of potential errors that can cause the playback to fail. From our…
Authors Daniel SilhavyDuring the WWDC 2021 conference, Apple announced a new tool called Advanced Video Quality Tool (AVQT): “AVQT is a macOS command line tool, which estimates perceptual quality of compressed videos, that might contain video coding and scaling artifacts”. [1] Similarly…
Authors Mariana AvelinoIn the second blog post of the SAND series, we will take a detailed look at the different FAMIUM SAND dashboards: Real-Time Monitoring, Reporting, Errors Overview, DRM/ Media/ XHR Errors and Session Details. Read on to discover what the purpose…
Authors Stefan PhamShort answer: No, it’s ‘cbcs’ time. If you would like to understand this better, keep on reading. The Common Encryption standard ISO/IEC 23001-7 is the enabler for multi-DRM-protected DASH/HLS streams. It is not quite “common encryption” as the name suggest,…
Authors Mariana AvelinoWelcome to the first blog post of our latest series „SAND“! Here we will introduce our solution „FAMIUM SAND“ by explaining what it is and why it’s important, especially for content providers. We’ll keep our discussion high-level, but if you…
Authors Daniel SilhavyTo some degree, we can compare a DASH MPD to a novel. A novel usually has multiple chapters (DASH periods) with exciting parts (high quality segments) and rather boring parts (low quality segments). Sometimes, we even skip some chapters (seek)….
Authors Stefan Pham and Louay BassboussIn cooperation with Zattoo, Fraunhofer FOKUS developed a concept and architecture for enabling HbbTV on Zattoo’s Android TV Operator set-top boxes. As a result, an HbbTV library for Android was developed and integrated in the Zattoo Android TV App. This…
Authors Anita ChenWelcome back to the Deep Encode series! In the previous post, we introduced the entire FAMIUM Deep Encode project and touched upon different aspects and components of the architecture, including a sneak peek into per-scene encoding. In this post, we…
Authors Anita ChenBack in August 2019, we published a post called ‘Per-Title-Encoding’, shortly followed by ‘Calculating VMAF and PSNR with FFmpeg’. To pick up where we left off, we’d like to begin a “Deep Encode” series – a sequence of blog posts…
Authors Daniel Silhavy and Stefan PhamAs head developers of the dash.js project we are frequently facing situations in which we have to evaluate if the failure of a DASH stream is caused by an actual bug in the implementation of the dash.js player or by…
